Schmitt's License

Citations

• 37 Pa. Super. 420
• 1908 Pa. Super. LEXIS 297

Syllabus

<p>Liquor law — Retail license — Certificate of qualified electors.</p> <p>Where sixteen persons sign a certificate for a retail liquor license, the fact that four of such persons are not qualified electors within the meaning of the act, is immaterial, if it appears that the other twelve are properly qualified.</p> <p>Liquor laws — Revocation of license — Irregularity in certificate — Changing order of court.</p> <p>Am. application to revoke a retail liquor license on the ground of the falseness of certain statements made in the certificate signed by twelve qualified electors, is in the nature of an application to open a final order, judgment or decree regular on its face and after due hearing, and the makers of such an application must show that the facts they set up were not known to, or could not have been ascertained by, them prior to the granting and issuing of the license. Such a proceeding is entirely different from that provided by statute for the revocation of a license upon the ground that the licensee had violated a law of the commonwealth relating to the sale of liquor.</p>